Cry, The Beloved Country

On the twentieth anniversary of the repeal of the apartheid legislation, the South African government is attempting to legislate for the classification as secret of, well, pretty much everything that any media outlet might ever wish to report.

While Mandela was locked up, the ANC's uncompromising support for its Soviet paymaster, right up to the bitter end, considerably extended the apartheid era by prolonging American support for that regime until the Cold War was safely over.

Whereas the truly effective opposition to apartheid came from the non-violent, non-Marxist, non-racial, pro-Commonwealth tradition of Alan Paton and Helen Suzman, figures who suffered far more than those who were no doubt painfully, but nevertheless comfortably, exiled in London, or Moscow, or wherever.